I looked at Sponsored Debt... it seems to interleave fairly well with her concept of having inherited some variant of the Midas Curse, I'm just not sure how to fit the source/sponsor in -- for the long-term play and reveal. I'm sure I can find a fit later on, but I really feel more comfortable having something like that in place from the beginning so that any cluebats I drop are solid and appropriate; not overly generic. /shrug. This idea is still on the table, to be sure.
I came here looking for an idea or two and now I'm swimming in possibilities.
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Like I said, as a bloodline curse, this should work fairly well. Hell, you could have her ancestors show up as ghosts, and they will only rest if the curse is lifted. Maybe their variant on the curse can manifest in some ways as well, which could make for some really messed up situations to be sure.
It could even be that original Midas was cursed by a Sidhe who is still around. I'm not too familiar with the Midas story, maybe there's something in there?
Maybe the curse is similar to the Loup Garoux curse. Only one person can have it at any given time. Now maybe a relative of her knows about the curse and thinks it's a gift and her birthright and tries to get access to it.
Maybe another relative knows about the curse, he had it and lost it because he technically died a few years ago, before your player got the curse, and is now determined to end the curse for good, by ending the bloodline.
Maybe someone wants to trigger the original Midas curse for gold to make an easy profit.
Maybe it is possible to trigger past versions of the curse occasionally. Maybe by channeling one of the ancestor ghosts. Or maybe they can force that on her occasionally.